As a first real learning experience I took the time to work thru the Resolve Digital Todo App and I have to admit that I was impressed.  Overall this tutorial was spot on.  The only changes I had to make to it were:

  • Adapt it from using postgres to mysql which, honestly, was nothing more than adding “—database mysql” to the initial create statement:

mix phoenix.new phoenix_todos_api --no-brunch  --database mysql

  • At the ember level, I had to adjust the version number of the ember-cli-shims (in the file bower.json):

"ember-cli-shims": "ember-cli/ember-cli-shims#0.1.0”,